Bøger af Umberto Eco

A posthumous collection of essays by internationally renowned essayist, literary critic, philosopher, and author of The Name of the Rose--"one of the most influential thinkers of our time" (Los Angeles Times)In his final collection of works, celebrated essayist and novelist Umberto Eco observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval in ideological values, the crises in politics, and the unbridled individualism that have become the backdrop of our lives--a "liquid" society in which it's not easy to find a polestar, though stars and starlets abound. In these pieces, written for his regular column in L'Espresso magazine, Eco brings his dazzling erudition and keen sense of the everyday to bear on topics such as popular culture and politics, being seen, conspiracies, the old and the young, new technologies, mass media, racism, and good manners. It is a final gift to his readers--astute, witty, and illuminating.

In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false" to reflections on the experimental writing of Borges and Joyce, Eco's luminous intelligence and encyclopedic knowledge are on dazzling display throughout. And when he reveals his own ambitions and superstitions, his authorial anxieties and fears, one feels like a secret sharer in the garden of literature to which he so often alludes. Remarkably accessible and unfailingly stimulating, this collection exhibits the diversity of interests and the depth of knowledge that have made Eco one of the world's leading writers.

"As brilliant and quirky as THE NAME OF THE ROSE, as mischievous and wide-raning....A virtuoso performance."THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEThree clever book editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years befoe, decide to have a little fun. Randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entires, they think they are creating a long lazy game--until the game starts taking over....Here is an incredible journey of thought and history, memory and fantasy, a tour de force as enthralling as anything Umberto Eco--or indeed anyone--has ever devised.

It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story.

Dette er en flergangsbog, der kan anvendes som et supplement til danskundervisningen på FVU.TilgangLette klassikere er en serie læsepædagogisk bearbejdede udgaver af kendte og populære bøger. Serien henvender sig til læsesvage unge og voksne, der finder originaludgaverne uoverkommelige eller svære at læse, men som gerne vil have en god læseoplevelse.IndholdMunken William er tegntyder og sporhund. Han tager sin elev, novicen Adso, med til et kloster i Norditalien i det Herrens år 1327. En ung munk er død under mystiske omstændigheder, og de to vil forsøge at løse mysteriet. Mens de efterforsker dødsfaldet, dør flere munke i klosteret dag for dag. Munkene er opskræmte med god grund.Efterforskningen fører William og Adso igennem en labyrint af sælsomme spor, som leder dem til klosterets inderste hemmeligheder. Hvad er det, biblioteket gemmer, siden det bliver så godt bevogtet? Hvilken viden havde de døde munke, og hvilken rolle har den gamle, blinde mand?Jo dybere William og Adso graver, jo farligere bliver det for dem. En historie om synd, straf og tilgivelse, om farlig litteratur og den forbudte latter.Bearbejdet af Leena Bækdal.DownloadsLæs uddrag

The Prague Cemetery is the #1 international bestseller from the award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco.Vintage Eco...the book is a triumph.--New York Review of BooksNineteenth-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night.Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. Conspiracies rule history. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat.But what if behind all of these conspiracies, both real and imagined, lay one lone man?Choreographed by a truth that is itself so strange a novelist need hardly expand on it to produce a wondrous tale...Eco is to be applauded for bringing this stranger-than-fiction truth vividly to life.--New York Times

En l'an de grâce et de disgrâce 1327, rien ne va plus dans la chrétienté. Des bandes d'hérétiques sillonnent les royaumes. Lorsque Guillaume de Baskerville, accompagné de son secrétaire, arrive dans le havre de sérénité et de neutralité qu'est l'abbaye située entre Provence et Ligurie - que tout l'Occident admire pour la science de ses moines et la richesse de sa bibliothèque -, il est aussitôt mis à contribution par l'abbé. La veille, un moine s'est jeté du haut des murailles. C'est le premier des assassinats qui seront scandés par les heures canoniales de la vie monastique. Crimes, stupre, vice, hérésie, tout va advenir en l'espace de sept jours.Sous sa forme amusante de roman policier et savante de devinette érudite, un vibrant plaidoyer pour la liberté, pour la mesure, pour la sagesse, menacées de tous côtés par les forces de la déraison et de la nuit. Dominique Fernandez, L'Express.

Munken William er tegntyder og sporhund. Han tager sin elev, novicen Adso, med til et kloster i Norditalien i det Herrens år 1327. En ung munk er død under mystiske omstændigheder, og de to vil forsøge at løse mysteriet. Mens de efterforsker dødsfaldet, dør flere munke i klosteret dag for dag. Munkene er opskræmte med god grund.Efterforskningen fører William og Adso igennem en labyrint af sælsomme spor, som leder dem til klosterets inderste hemmeligheder. Hvad er det, biblioteket gemmer, siden det bliver så godt bevogtet? Hvilken viden havde de døde munke, og hvilken rolle har den gamle, blinde mand?Jo dybere William og Adso graver, jo farligere bliver det for dem. En historie om synd, straf og tilgivelse, om farlig litteratur og den forbudte latter.Easy reader udgave af den oprindelige roman i serien Lette klassikere.

Umberto Eco explores the most distant realms of our imagination.

Munken William er tegntyder og sporhund. Han tager sin elev, novicen Adso, med til et kloster i Norditalien i det Herrens år 1327. En ung munk er død under mystiske omstændigheder, og de to vil forsøge at løse mysteriet. Mens de efterforsker dødsfaldet, dør flere munke i klosteret dag for dag. Munkene er opskræmte med god grund.Efterforskningen fører William og Adso igennem en labyrint af sælsomme spor, som leder dem til klosterets inderste hemmeligheder. Hvad er det, biblioteket gemmer, siden det bliver så godt bevogtet? Hvilken viden havde de døde munke, og hvilken rolle har den gamle, blinde mand?Jo dybere William og Adso graver, jo farligere bliver det for dem. En historie om synd, straf og tilgivelse, om farlig litteratur og den forbudte latter.Easy reader udgave af den oprindelige roman i serien Lette klassikere.

Focuses on what the author once called 'the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation' - that is, the belief that many interpreters have gone too far in their domination of texts, thereby destroying meaning and the basis for communication. This book begins with four theoretical essays dealing with various aspects of interpretive theory.

1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured by local partisans and shot in a summary execution. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed writer picking up hack work, is offered a fee he can't refuse to ghost-write a memoir.

Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "e;linguistics of the lunatic,"e; stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exploring the "e;Force of the False,"e; Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much smaller than it is, leading him to seek out a quick route to the East via the West and thus fortuitously "e;discovering"e; America. The fictions that grew up around the cults of the Rosicrucians and Knights Templar were the result of a letter from a mysterious "e;Prester John"e;-undoubtedly a hoax-that provided fertile ground for a series of delusions and conspiracy theories based on religious, ethnic, and racial prejudices. While some false tales produce new knowledge (like Columbus's discovery of America) and others create nothing but horror and shame (the Rosicrucian story wound up fueling European anti-Semitism) they are all powerfully persuasive.In a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, Eco shows us how serendipities-unanticipated truths-often spring from mistaken ideas. From Leibniz's belief that the I Ching illustrated the principles of calculus to Marco Polo's mistaking a rhinoceros for a unicorn, Eco tours the labyrinth of intellectual history, illuminating the ways in which we project the familiar onto the strange.Eco uncovers a rich history of linguistic endeavor-much of it ill-conceived-that sought to "e;heal the wound of Babel."e; Through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, and Egyptian were alternately proclaimed as the first language that God gave to Adam, while-in keeping with the colonial climate of the time-the complex language of the Amerindians in Mexico was viewed as crude and diabolical. In closing, Eco considers the erroneous notion of linguistic perfection and shrewdly observes that the dangers we face lie not in the rules we use to interpret other cultures but in our insistence on making these rules absolute.With the startling combination of erudition and wit, bewildering anecdotes and scholarly rigor that are Eco's hallmarks, Serendipities is sure to entertain and enlighten any reader with a passion for the curious history of languages and ideas.

How we create and organize knowledge is the theme of this major achievement by Umberto Eco. Demonstrating once again his inimitable ability to bridge ancient, medieval, and modern modes of thought, he offers here a brilliant illustration of his longstanding argument that problems of interpretation can be solved only in historical context.

Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres.

In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures.

In this collection of nine essays, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between 'open' and 'closed' texts, between a work of art that actively involves the 'addressee' in its production and one that holds the 'addressee' at bay and seeks to evoke a limited and predetermined response. He investigates the contributions of contemporary semantics to the study of narrative, and connects the modalities of textual interpretation with the problem of possible worlds.

Umberto Eco undertakes a series of idiosyncratic and typically brilliant explorations, starting from the perceived data of common sense, from which flow an abundance of 'stories' or fables, often with animals as protagonists, to expound a clear critique of Kant, Heidegger and Peirce.

The two great men, who stand on opposite sides of the church door, discuss some of the controversial issues of the day. One is the prince of the Church, a respected scholar and one of the pre-eminent ecumenical churchmen of Europe; and the other the world famous author of "The Name of the Rose", a scholar, philosopher and self-declared secularist.